HANS HANNES BOK WATER COLOR COLORED PENCIL PAINTING

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Uploaded with ImageShack.us FROM A SMOKE FREE HOME! LISTED ARTIST WHOSE ARTWORK HAS SOLD FOR OVER $9,000! Entitled "FRANK". Signed "BOK" in lower right hand corner and on the back. 8 X1 0" on water color board. Mixed media (water color and colored pencil). Excellent condition with only the slightest signs of wear on some small edge areas. Very interesting piece from a famous Sci-fi illustrator! Biography from Butler Institute of American Art: Hannes Bok was a man of many accomplishments - he was an artist, magazine illustrator, author, and astrologer. His work appeared on the cover of many early pulp fiction magazines, such as Weird Tales, Super Science Stories and Famous Fantastic Mysteries. All together, he painted almost 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy and detective magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations. Bok's works also appeared on early fanzines, calendars and dustjackets from specialty book publishers such as Arkham House, Shasta, Llewellyn and Fantasy Press. With his paintings, he achieved a luminous quality through the use of an arduous glazing process, learned from his mentor, Maxfield Parrish. He was the first artist to win a Hugo Award, which was special recognition for science fiction illustration. Bok wrote short stories and numerous poems (a sonnet read more
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